THE LENGTH, 2020

A moment to activate personal archives and consider their relationship to public record. An archive belonging to a demographic in a particular time and space, and recorded by the length of our histories and imaginations. A Black person will speak into a screen, and the return signal is potentially a void, a ship, a loudspeaker, dancing shoes, survival.

The Length is a commissioned performance, part of an ongoing project: Black Women as/and the Living Archive curated by Tsedaye Makonnen. The project reflects on collective memory archived in Black women. The commissioned piece is in response to Alisha Wormsley's film Children of NAN: Mothership.